October 2011
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can someone say something just openly hostile to...
cemu:
so i can get in a fist fight?
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SOMEONE JUST STOLE MY PUMPKIN
keep it classy, bmore.
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i don’t know what’s wrong with me but all this talk of snow and sweaters has built up this giant knot in my stomach and i really just want to quit my job and go back to new england and get into a bed and never leave it. is that so wrong?
i’m not going to quit because i really don’t want to be one of those tfa cliches, but i really hope i don’t have to be so...
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“There’s something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill...”
– Angela Chase, My So-Called Life (via somaroy)
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Why does the fact that there’s currently a blizzard in great barrington make me want to cry because I’m not there? Like is there something wrong with me?
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ugh
even though there are a lot of valid criticisms about teach for america, the organization’s most vocal opponents are so ignorant as to how the hiring process actually works, and also how broken the public school system in america actually is regardless of teach for america’s involvement. they make it sound like i snatched my job out of the hands of some poor, defenseless,...
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it's snowing in great barrington
no wonder my heart has hurt all day
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i took my evening valium, had my half bottle of...
i know what it feels like to have my idealism stolen
how about you?
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CRIME WATCH!
I saw a sign on the Dunkin’ Donuts I get my daily pumpkin coffee every morning at saying that a lady was assaulted/attempted to be abducted by a “tan” man potentially driving his “light colored pick up truck” on Hickory & Weldon, which is kind of scary because that’s close to my house, but also I haven’t seen any signs anywhere else so I thought I...
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Google Maps: Every place mentioned in any Mountain... →
corygrimes:
synecdoche:
this is still one of my favorite things on the entire internet.
the best thing on the internet.
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can we just talk for a second about how the line at the charles village (homewood) chipotle is ALWAYS so long that the only word i can think of to describe it is “degrading”?
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i keep ordering like once a week or so from this chinese place that’s like 3 ft away from my house in hampden and every time i do it i know it’s a horrible idea but i do it anyway and then i feel disgusting and greasy and sick and so fat for days after, just long enough for it to stop by the time to order it again the next week.
i need to go on a diet. i need to get my jcard so i can...
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tips on teaching at a school that's about to be...
lesson plan like you’re being observed at all times, because you probably will be
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i just actually ate the entire pound and a half of spinach i bought today at the farmers’ market, which by the way, is not very much spinach as it turns out. it was so good but now i’m lying in bed still hungry and kind of sad because now i have nothing else to eat for the rest of the week.
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on chartered bus tours of "scenes from the wire"
you want to see “scenes from the wire”? come to work with me for five minutes, and bring a bullet proof vest.
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suckmycockachino-deactivated201 asked: Baltimore is just grand, isn't it?
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they're threatening to shut down my school;...
…nothing like someone trying to take your job away to make you realize you don’t hate it that much. in fact, you might actually kind of like it.
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weird shit i did today which might mean i'm...
1) went to w. northern parkway instead of e. northern parkway for the professional development i had this morning and then got stuck by a car accident so was half an hour late for the PD and wasn’t allowed in (thanks baltimore. usually, n, e, s, w on streets doesn’t mean anything, but when it does, it REALLY does.). hello, i’m never late. except for like, once every 3 weeks.
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“The summer that I broke my arm, I waited for your letter
I have no feeling for...”
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oh, my gosh, can you imagine what it’s like when your pre-k field trip to the pumpkin patch/farm is canceled because of a monsoon wreaking havoc on baltimore? the children were so sad! they cried!!!
not to fear, little darlings, we’ll go again, on halloween this time since that’s the only day they’d reschedule, so you’ll miss the annual halloween parade. sorry...
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for f's sake
DOES ANYONE I’VE MET SINCE COLLEGE NOT BELIEVE IN GOD OTHER THAN ME?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m about to, just, die. how can i just be, so, idk, i don’t know, um, what’s the word… oh.
enlightened, no, smart, no… not… um…………..
there’s no such thing as a calling! i teach because i want to! not because jesus told me...
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yeah so ew. i had to waste 2 of my 10 sick days on this fucking stomach virus and i feel suuuuuuper guilty because i know my school hasn’t hired a substitute and my para has the class alone and it’s really unfair and fucked up and i feel so guilty even though i am LEGITIMATELY SICK and it doesn’t matter how early i call; they still won’t hire one. ughhhhhhh :( wah
malloryhogan:
Further proof I need to be living with Mallory… it’s going to be 65 degrees in Baltimore on Thursday! Hardly snow weather.
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oh, my god. i really don’t find beavis and butthead funny, but i find it even less funny when it interrupts Jersey Shore for some stupid promo. mtv, what the fuck are you doing, seriously? now i don’t know what snooki’s bf said to her when she apparently cheated on him with vinnie.
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sometimes i read about how awesome, rigorous, and prestigious hopkins is supposed to be, and i literally lol to myself in the dark about how easy, boring, and generic it actually is.
higher education is such a joke. not that i’m complaining. debt free science masters degree from the number one ranked science institution in america? i’ll take it… and run
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i’ve been so ill since friday afternoon. i bet i’ll be 100% by sunday evening. my body had the foresight to get sick on the weekend… how sweet of it.
:(
be careful, baltimore… there’s a stomach bug going around!
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It's like how you got when you knew the truth was...
but not the only way, oh, no.
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on that note, today i asked my abusive student if he throws furniture when he’s at mommy’s house, and he was like,
“mommy doesn’t have furniture”
and then i held him on my lap in silence for five minutes.
i saw a college-aged boy bike ride by me on a nice, new bike with nice biking gear when i was leaving work today, on the streets of sandtown, and i thought to myself, “o boy you’re in the wrong neighborhood” especially since there’s nothing but ‘hood for miles around.
‘course, i also think that to myself every fucking day. teach for america is so strange
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